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Auction History Result 6k515 ROME EXPRESS French 2p 1933 great Cecchetto art of Conrad Veidt by train, ultra rare! Date Sold 5/30/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1933 (from the first release of this movie in France) Vintage Theatrical Folded French Two-Panel "Double Grande" Movie Poster (2p; measures 63" x 90" [160 x 229 cm]; printed in 2 pieces) (Learn More) Rome Express, the 1932 (released in the U.S. in 1933) Walter Forde English train crime mystery melodrama ("A lifetime of adventure in one night on a train!"; about a mysterious man who gets on board a train going to Rome, and he knows that a valuable painting that was just stolen from a museum was taken on board, but he doesn't know who has the painting, and naturally, the train is filled with suspicious characters, all desperate for money, and the man must discover who is the thief before the train gets to Rome) starring Esther Ralston, Conrad Veidt, Joan Barry, Cedric Hardwicke (in his third film), Harold Huth, Gordon Harker, Donald Calthrop, and Hugh Williams. Note that Conrad Veidt was not Jewish, but his wife was, and he was preparing to leave Germany in the early 1930s, because he could see what was coming. He made this movie in England in 1932, and then returned to Germany to make a couple more movies, and then he and his wife left Germany permanently (and of course, he starred in England's "The Thief of Bagdad" in 1940 and in "Casablanca" in the U.S. in 1942). Tragically, he died in 1943 at the age of 50, or he surely would have had many more memorable performances. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Cecchetto Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare pre-World War II French poster (we have never auctioned ANY movie paper from this English movie)! Virtually no French posters survive from before, during, or right after World War II. Apparently there were many paper shortages in France during World War II, resulting in the destruction of almost all pre-World War II posters! Note that this French two-panel measures 63" x 90" [160 x 229 cm]. Also note that this French two-panel was printed in 2 sections designed to overlap. Condition: good to very good. There is staining on the back of one small part of the poster (it was on the outside when the poster was fully folded) and it is the rectangle in the upper left that includes part of the blue background and part of Veidt's upper arm. Otherwise, the poster has some darkening on parts of the folds and some fold and border wear, but has survived in pretty good condition, especially considering its size and rarity. Learn More about condition grades 
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